Profile

Nikhil Shanmugham

CS @ UT Austin

Hi! My name is Nikhil and I'm a Computer Science student at UT Austin, exploring research in machine learning and artificial intelligence while also pursuing software engineering opportunities to build impactful, real-world solutions.

Education

UT

The University of Texas at Austin

B.S. Computer Science

Aug. 2025 - May 2029

Stanford

Stanford University

Summer Session

Jun. 2024 - Aug. 2024

Cy-Woods

Cypress Woods High School

High School Diploma

Aug. 2021 - May 2025

Experience

UT

The University of Texas at Austin (Harris Lab)

Undergraduate Researcher

Aug. 2025 - Present

APlus

APlus Computer Science

Software Engineering Intern

May. 2025 - Aug. 2025

UTD

Quality of Life Technology Laboratory

Research Intern

Jun. 2023 - Aug. 2023

UTD

AI Safety Laboratory

Research Intern

Jun. 2022 - Aug. 2022

Events

SIG

Susquehanna International Group

Discovery Day

May. 2025 - May. 2025

Projects

Capling - Hack TX Project

Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, PostgreSQL, OpenAI GPT-3.5

Oct. 2025

Text-to-Speech Automation

AWS Lambda, S3, Amazon Polly, Python, IAM

Oct. 2025 - Nov. 2025

Chaos Engineering Simulator

Docker, Python, Flask, Redis

Aug. 2025 - Sep. 2025

STM32 Nucleo Weather Monitor

C, STM32 HAL

Apr. 2025

Gesture-Controlled Chrome Dino Game

Python, OpenCV, MediaPipe, Playwright

Oct. 2024